49.264 BF1202 – Tortricidae – Olethruetinae – Eucosma obumbratana

Tortricidae – Olethreutinae – Eucosma obrumbatana – Two-coloured Bell

STATUS – Uncertain – Maybe local on Sow Thistle – Very few modern day records.

ID POINTERS – Male forewing yellowish brown in the dorsal third and brown to reddish-brown over rest of wing. The ocellus is pale, usually containing two or three long black dashes, often broken. The females forewing is pale and unicolorous with a pale ocellus.

FLIGHT PERIOD – On the wing mid June-August

IMAGES – Kings Newton, Derbyshire – Will Soar©

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